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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency have bestowed a GreenChill gold-level award for innovative green refrigeration technology on Raley’s newest supermarket, which opened yesterday in Tracy, Calif.
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Pittsburgh’s grocery scene became a lot larger today with the long awaited unveiling of Giant Eagle’s 150,000-square-foot flagship Market District destination store in the new Settlers Ridge lifestyle shopping center in Robinson Township.
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Two of Roundy’s Pick ’n Save locations in McFarland and DeForest, Wis., are among the first grocery stores in the state to achieve “Green Grocer” certification from the Wisconsin Grocers Association (WGA), which is spearheading a pilot program to help grocery stores in achieve energy savings, sustainability and environmental standards.
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Sprouts Farmers Market, a Phoenix-based natural and organic foods retailer, yesterday joined the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s GreenChill Advanced Refrigeration Partnership and voluntarily committed to reducing refrigerant emissions in an effort to fight climate change and protect the earth’s ozone layer.
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Delhaize-owned Food Lion, LLC and refrigeration manufacturer Kysor//Warren have rolled out a cascading refrigeration system that uses naturally occurring carbon dioxide to keep frozen and fresh foods cold.
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Shaw’s Star Market at Chestnut Hill in Newton, Mass., yesterday became the first grocery store in the nation to receive the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s GreenChill Partnership platinum store award for its advanced refrigeration technology, which cuts the use of refrigerants by 85 percent compared with the typical supermarket, according to EPA.
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United Natural Foods, Inc. (UNFI), a Providence, R.I.-based national distributor of natural, organic and specialty foods, said yesterday that it plans to lease a 590,000-square-foot distribution center in Lancaster, Texas.
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Whole Foods Market plans to begin using 61 fuel cell-powered forklifts supplied by Plug Power and GENCO Supply Chain Solutions in natural and organic foods retailer’s Landover, Md., distribution center.
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Store tours give insights into not only what's happening in the grocery industry, but also what's happening in the communities they serve.
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A roundup of new fixture products — displays, signage holders and innovative shelving solutions.
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Loblaw Cos., Ltd. and Canadian biogas developer and operator StormFisher Biogas have agreed to convert all of the organic trimmings produced at Loblaw corporate grocery stores in southwestern Ontario into renewable energy at a new StormFisher renewable-energy facility in London, Ontario.
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A spacious produce department with a huge variety of fresh fruits and vegetables and a full-service floral shop is among the highlights of the latest addition to Lowes Foods’ family of supermarkets in Wesley Chapel, N.C.
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Giant-Carlisle CEO Sander van der Laan brings Dutch retailing expertise to U.S. stores.
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H.E. Butt Grocery Co. is introducing a “tune-up at the pump” program from Additech, an outsourced operator of at-the-pump interactive merchandising systems, to the rest of the Texas grocer’s Fuel Centers, bringing the total number of HEB locations to feature the solution to 180 from the current 64.
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United Supermarkets has bought 15 acres near Ft. Worth, Texas’ Alliance Airport, with plans to build a 200,000-square-foot distribution center to serve 16 locations in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, Abilene and Wichita Falls.
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U.K. grocer Tesco plans to install tamper-evident trailer seals to strengthen the security of the products it transports via its 4,000-trailer fleet.
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Following a hearing this week on H.R. 2382 -- the Credit Card Interchanges Fee Act of 2009 -- by the House Financial Services Committee, leaders from the National Grocers Association (N.G.A.) and the Food Marketing Institute (FMI) are hopeful that testimony concerning the burdensome fees that are deleterious to both retailers and consumers will continue to bolster the industry’s case for reform.
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Stater Bros. this week completed the relocation to its new state-of-the-art corporate offices and Norton distribution center in San Bernardino, Calif., with the opening of its new 155,000-square-foot support services building.
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In the first installment of a continuing series, Progressive Grocer shares insights from a handful of top retail deli and bakery executives during a recent PG roundtable, providing a perfect “fly on the wall” opportunity to hear verbatim dialogue about critical issues of the day.
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To make sure its HLX Service Scale delivered the best services for retailers, Hobart enlisted the help of a grocer that's all about service.
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The Kroger Co. is enhancing its fuel discount program in the Cincinnati/Dayton, Ohio, marketing area with an upgraded rewards program.
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As part of Food Lion, LLC’s continuing “Take A Fresh Look” renewal initiative, the grocer has remodeled 31 stores in the Columbia, S.C., and Florence, S.C., markets, enlarging the offering and improving the overall store shopping experience over a number of months.
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Tree of Life, Inc. has joined the SmartWay Transport Partnership, an innovative collaboration between the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the freight industry, designed to increase energy efficiency while significantly reducing greenhouse gases and air pollution.
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Tesco’s Fresh & Easy chain has unveiled its first LEED Gold-certified grocery store, which opened yesterday in Cathedral City, Calif. The store achieved LEED certification for energy use, lighting, water use and the incorporation of several other green strategies, such as using 90 percent recycled steel for the building’s structure.
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Sliced, ready-to-eat meats are the backbone of the supermarket deli, accounting for up to one-third of deli sales. With that in mind, the Madison, Wis.-based International Dairy Deli Bakery Association (IDDBA) is offering an online staff-training program to teach deli department associates how to provide customers with meal solutions centered on sliced deli meats.
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Going to Seed
Pomegranates are big business, which means that the edible seeds — more often called arils — of the currently ubiquitous fruit are poised for a sales spike of their own.
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 Progressive Grocer's 2009 Produce Operations Review
Against a trying backdrop of persistently weak economic conditions, fierce competition and financially wary shoppers, supermarket produce departments faced much harsher headwinds during the past 12- month period than they have in recent years, as evidenced by marginal comparable-sales gains and a tentative outlook for the balance of the year, according to results of Progressive Grocer's 2009 Annual Produce Operations Review.
 PG's CES: Inside the Market Basket: Economical Choices Bring Grocery Gains
Total supermarket sales were $430.3 billion, up $13.2 billion from the $417.2 billion recorded in 2007 -- continuing the trend of slightly higher percentage increases in each of the past five years, according to Progressive Grocer's 62nd Annual Consumer Expenditures Study (CES), now greatly expanded from the eight-page print edition to 35 pages of research.
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